Judges must stop blocking the deportation of foreign criminals from Britain because the right to family life is "not absolute", Theresa May has said.
The Home Secretary will call a vote this week allowing MPs to decide how to "balance the interests" of prisoners' and the wider general public. She told the BBC that judges must "follow or take into account" the views of Parliament before coming to decisions on whether prisoners should be deported.
The right to a family life is enshrined in under European law. The rules allow hundreds of foreign criminals to delay or prevent deportation each year.
Why not just deport the entire family? They have then have their 'family life' in Pakistan. Or Mauritania...
The Home Secretary said the Government is prepared to bring in new laws if judges ignore the views of Parliament, setting her on a collision course with the judiciary.
It came as Mrs May unveiled plans to stop people bringing their husbands or wives to live in Britain unless they have at least £18,000 in savings. For every foreign child, they must have an additional £2,400 to stop families becoming dependent on benefits.
"It is important that we say you should be able to support yourselves and not be reliant on the state," she told the Andrew Marr Show.
The new rules are aimed at helping to reduce immigration from the hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands a year.
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After a spate of cases, one of Britannia's top prosecutors, Nazir Afzal says it is impossible not to notice 'that the perpetrators were Asian and the victims were not'
In the last year several gangs have been prosecuted for targeting young, vulnerable white girls and abusing them
Home Affairs Select Committee to take evidence on the issue next week after urgent hearing called
More unpleasant details about the fates of the throwaway girls and the Pakistani men who abused them at the link. We've followed the story here at Rantburg as it developed, and there is little new except Mr Afzal's admittance of the pattern.
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So what happens when the society as a whole knows what's going on, knows the authorities are ignoring it, and, further, arresting anyone who speaks about it as speaking "hate"?
I think it starts with loud noises.
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It tends to start with big leaks to the press about those trying to censor things...
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Of course, the authorities being ineffectual in dealing true justice will recoil and take real firm action when society falls back upon vendetta, which is perceived as a direct threat to their power and legitimacy. Got to protect our phoney baloney jobs.
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